Comment by zozbot234
3 hours ago
Phones and laptops are terrible devices for local AI, way too constrained by bad thermals and small batteries. MiniPC's (many of them using mobile hardware) don't have that particular issue, and can easily run on a 24/7 basis.
The same devices that do what would be considered absolutely monstrous amounts of image and other signal processing just a few years ago. And have an always-on radio.
Phones are also a terrible place to run a radio, but there's a huge amount of benefit in figuring out how to do so.
That level of local AI is also more or less what you need for competent autonomous robots, too. If your household robots are orchestrated from your phone, the local security and cloud convenience converge on a single device. No extra servers, etc, reduced cost, all that - local AI is a massive market amplifier.